Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Image: Labor Day, circa 1900, Buffalo NY via Wikimedia Commons license Labor Day began during a time when people in the United States were working 12-hour days, seven days a week to survive. (Sound familiar?) Children were working, too – some as young as 5 and 6 years old […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Major contributors to Republican campaigns make it a point to charge poor people more for their services. There are approximately 77.2 million workers in the United States that are paid at hourly rates. That represents 58.7 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 1.3 million earned exactly […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit If taking one good look at the disintegration of the Republican Party doesn’t give you a big enough reason to vote in 2016, here’s 8 more reasons why you can’t afford to sit this one out… As we watch the Republican party fall further and further into the […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit The dirty little secret of the education industry is that there are people teaching at universities and colleges but being paid a pittance. As in, so low, they have to take 2 and 3 other jobs to make ends meet. For adjunct professors, on average, teaching a full […]

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit An Ohio bill to defund Planned Parenthood awaits Gov. John Kasich’s signature. The Ohio legislature passed a bill last week that would defund Planned Parenthood by redirecting state-administered grant money away from groups that “promote abortion.” Gov. Kasich has vowed to sign it into law. The bill was […]